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. 2014 Sep 23;14:110. doi: 10.1186/1471-2288-14-110

Table 8.

Posterior medians and 95 per cent posterior credible intervals for the application of the dependent and independent models to simulated dependent and independent data (two-step informative priors for sensitivities alone were assigned (see Table 5 ))

Dependent data Independent data
Dependent model Independent model Dependent model Independent model
π = 0.10 0.0963 (0.0830,0.1151) 0.1184 (0.1088,0.1277)* 0.1030 (0.0919,0.1162) 0.1000 (0.0900,0.1107)
Se 1 = 0.70 0.6985 (0.6048,0.7960) 0.7971 (0.7841,0.7999)* 0.6558 (0.6028,0.7847) 0.6979 (0.6068,0.7940)
Se 2 = 0.80 0.7935 (0.7044,0.8950) 0.8965 (0.8818,0.8999)* 0.7864 (0.7030,0.8942) 0.7994 (0.7057,0.8942)
Sp 1 = 0.80 0.7978 (0.7775,0.8196) 0.8866 (0.8700,0.9028)* 0.7948 (0.7740,0.8156) 0.8002 (0.7801,0.8205)
Sp 2 = 0.70 0.6981 (0.6792,0.7164) 0.7677 (0.7511,0.7846)* 0.6966 (0.6764,0.7170) 0.6992 (0.6797,0.7191)
pD 3.87 3.08 3.87 3.38
DIC 58.63 323.08 58.63 58.76

*: incorrect statistical inference.